I can't help you with Nagios, but if you want to try a replacement, look
for Rich Smrcina for a copy of the Hobbit code for SLES on zSeries, or
get a copy of the x86 code for a server and get a copy of the client
code for SLES on zSeries. Hobbit is an follow-on to BigBrother and one
of its features is a trending (thanks to RRDTOOL) of CPU time
(SYS,USER,WAIT).

BTW, Rich Smrcina also has a very good z/VM client for Hobbit too.

/Tom Kern
/301-903-2211


--------------Original Message---------------
From:         James Melin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:      How to translate Load Average to meaningful management numbers

I just tossed up a Nagios monitoring thing for a bunch of SLES-10 machines.
Still very vanilla. One of the checks I have defined is 'check_load' which
displays load data similarly to what is found in 'top'.

Unfortunately, that means NOTHING to my boss, who likes to see %CPU busy.
What is the best explanation of load average I can give my boss.

Also has anyone seen a decent check_cpu widget for Nagios?

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